Angry Joe grabs his Kinect and climbs into the cockpit of Steel Battalion once again! Does it live up to its thematic older brother? Or is it the black sheep of the family that no one wants to talk about? I think you know the answer.

I SERIOUSLY wanted this game, or a game like it, to exist…the idea of a game where you lead a tank/mech crew into battle in a sim is one of my dreams…the closest thing to it is red orchestra 2 tanks battles…but I want a game dedicated to exactly what steel battalion was going for to suceed…oh well, back to RO2…

in all honestly, i had tons of fun playing the demo (didnt own the xbox long enough to buy the game).
the idea is amazing, and it worked pretty well in my case (i had to sit on the table to work right).
playing it alone is not fun
i played it with my brothers and took turns seeing who can compelet the mission, we had alot of laughs (mostly at the controls and situations we were in).

all in all, i liked it, and would have bought it if it wasnt on the damned xbox

Unless it’s an interactive game like Kinectimals, or a dance game like Dance Central, Kinect is pretty much guaranteed to be useless. It was Microsoft’s sad attempt at piggybacking off of the Wii motion craze (which had even more problems during its launch) halfway into the current generation’s life cycle. Microsoft didn’t know if it would work or not, none of the developers had any clue how to program for it, but they pushed it out the door and onto the market anyway.

I’m sorry to say Joe, but when they promised this on the Kinect I just knew it was going to be crap. And I was right. I bought into the hype just as hard and hit the ground just as you did. I have since traded in my Kinect. It’s just useless for any real gaming and unless Microsoft takes it back to the drawing board and starts from scratch, I can easily say that all of the games oriented for, and sold to real gamers will always be the highest quality of garbage.
Here’s to whatever childhood memory of mine that they’ll crush next.